This Is My Land

93 min
France
Minority rights Right to freedom of religion Educational rights Children's rights The citizen and the state

eng: for_whom

Pupils Students Government officials Teachers

This Is My Land

How do the Palestinian and Israeli education systems teach the history of their nations? This Is My Land follows several Jewish and Arab teachers over one academic year. Through observing their exchanges and confrontations with students, debates with the ministries, the curriculum and its restrictions, the viewers obtain an intimate glimpse into the profound and long-lasting effect that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict transmits onto the next generation.

Director

Tamara Erde

Tamara Erde, born in 1982 in Tel Aviv, is a French-Israeli filmmaker living and working in Paris. She graduated from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, and later attended the Le Fresnoy Film School, France. Tamara creates various documentary and fiction films, performances and video installations.

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To be honest, it wasn’t really easy for me to watch the film. I’ll be frank, the first 10 minutes I didn’t want to continue watching this film because of some things I didn’t understand, but then I didn’t even realise before it was over. After watching the film, I’m left with a rather ambiguous feeling and many questions about the problem that’s developed in the region.

 

 

Visitor of the Docudays UA film club Human Rights Through a Lens